Emilio Galante

Emilio Galante was born in Bologna, Italy. He studied composition and flute at the Bologna Musical Academy and in 1979 received his Conservatory Diploma in flute-playing. Galante also studied at the University of Bologna where he took a degree in Philosophy, delivering a dissertation on Musical Aesthetics.
Galante has played all over Europe as well as in the USA, Russia and Turkey. He has also performed as a soloist in La Scala (Milano), La Fenice (Venice), and Salzburger Residenz.
He now mostly performs contemporary music, including his own compositions, and collaborates with both classical and jazz musicians. In fact, in 1998 he founded Sonata Islands, a chamber ensemble devoted to new music, and in 1999 recorded "Sciare di Fuoco" for BMG-Ricordi. Sonata Islands has its own festival which takes place in Milan and Trento and which showcases compositions that try to mix together jazz and new music. His most recent recordings are “Torre Aquila” (2010), with Markus Stockhausen, "Sonata islands meets Mahler" (2013) for ZDM. In 2016 “Doublesex” (A Simple Lunch), a oratorio for voice, female choir and jazz trio, between 2018 and 2020 “Soul Doctrine” (Innova), music by the american composer Zack Browning, “Zeuhl Jazz” and “QBB” for the american label Chant Records, two works of avant rock, TSQ in 2021 inspired by the Third Stream.
He is a co-author along with Gianni Lazzari of the book "The Flute", published by EDT in 2003 and reviewed by many international flute magazines.